Transporting vessel



June 17, 1930. w. SCHMIDT TRANSPORTING VESSEL Filed Aug. 248, 1929 l 1:'I T Patented June 17, 1930 UNITED STATES PATEN'Il OFFICE WILHELMSCHMIDT, OF PEINE, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM GEBR. KARGES, g OFBRUNSWICK, GERMANY TRANSPORTNG VESSEL Application led August 28, 1929,Serial No. 389,042, and in Germany J'anuarylS, 1927.

This invention relates to transporting vessels, such as are used inpreserving factories and the like for transporting and temporarilystoring vegetables, fruit and the like. According to the invention such,a vessel is so constructed that the material to be treated can also beboiled, cooled, washed, dyed and subjected to other operations, withoutthe necessity of transferring it from one vessel to another bet-Ween twooperative stages. This signifies a considerable saving in work, which isof importance for preserving factories having seasonal rush periods, andprevents damage to the material which is very ,s apt to suffer seriouslythrough being transferred from one vessel to another. This also reducesthe number of vessels used and the number of hands employed. The newvessel forms a freely movable pail or similar container capable of beinginserted into any boilers, washing troughs, dyeing vats or the like andhaving a perforated bottom through which the boiling, washing or dyeingmedium can enter, which, rising from below, passes through the contentsof the vessel and can pass out again through perforations or the like atthe top.

A further feature of the invention is a trough or the like, which isprovided with means for sealing the new vesselin a Huid* tight mannerand with connections for conveying a boiling, washing or dyeing mediumthrough the vessel.

A constructional forni of the invention, which should be regarded as anexample only, is shown diagraminatically in the accompanying drawing.Fig. 1 shows the new pail in perspective suspended from the hook 0f acrane. Fig. 2 shows in vertical section how the new pail is used forboiling, cooling and washing vegetables. Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig.2.

In the example shown the new vessel consists of a sheet metal pail ahaving a perforated bottom b and perforations c near the whichfacilitates the placing-of the pail a over upper rim. The vegetables orthe like are placed in the pail a. lf the vegetables are for instance tobe boiled, cooled and washed, the new pail is placed, as shown in Figs.2 and 3, into a trough-like container z' whichis divided byuprighttransverse walls l into compartments 2. The bottom Z of eachcompartment 2 has an opening a which is somewhat smaller than theperforated bottom Z2 of the pail a and under which is a chamber m whichis closed at the bottom. This chamber is provided with a closable steamsupply pipe 7c, a closable water supply pipe cl and a drain cock d. Overthe hole a the pail a is placed, preferably so that its rim al rests ona sealing (rubber) ring o framing the hole a. `The result of thisarrangement is that the medium (steam or water) which is admitted underpressure through the pipe c or cl into the chamber m is forced upwardsthrough the pail, the contents of the pail being causedto float andbeing consequently thoroughly penetrated and loosened up. Thus, byalternately using the pipes 7s and 701, the material can be boiled,cooled and' washed (or, as is for instance usual in the case of spinach,be dyed and rinsed) in direct sequence in the same vessel a withoutbeing shifted or transferred, if the pipes 7c and 701 are connected upto the particular con. tainers. The medium (steam or liquid) penetratingthe contents of the pail from the bottom upwards passes out through theupper openings c in the pail and pours into the chamber 2 of the troughwhich is providedat a suitable place with a drain pipe g.

The ring p for holding the sealing ring 0 `in position is preferablyprovided as shown in Fig. 2 with an upwardly flared flange p1 theopening n.

For the arrangement shown in Figs. 2

and 3 the existing washing troughsin preserving fact'ories'may be used,so that the new pail does notnecessitate the provision of any elaboratenew arrangements. The employment of long troughs z', the top plate Z ofwhich has several openings n, has the advantage that at the same timefor instance in one Chamber m the steam pipe, in the next chamber thecooling pipe and in a third oompartment a cooling or dyeing pipe may beopened, so that by simply moving the pail a from one opening n to thenext and so on, the material can without dihioulty be subjected to allthe working stages. A trough or box z', however, the top plate Z ofwhich has only one opening n for the pail, also forms a feature of thepresent invention.

It should be understood that the use of the new pail a, b is not limitedto apparatus of the kind shown.

that I Claim is:

l. In an apparatus for boiling, washing and dyeing vegetables, fruit andthe like the combination with a transport vessel, having suspending orcarrying means, a perforated bottom and perforations in its upper part,of a plate, an opening in the said plate, a sealing ring surrounding thesaid opening for supporting the rinr atthe bottom of the vessel andpipes for the supply of the boiling, washing and dyeing media disposedbelow the said opening, as and for 'the purpose set forth.

2. In an apparatus for boiling, washing and dyeing vegetables, fruit andthe like the Combination with a transport vessel, having suspending orcarrying means, a perforated bottom and perforations in its upper part,of a plate, an opening in the said plate, a sealing ring surrounding thesaid opening for supporting the rim at the bottom of the vessel, achamber below the said opening in the plate and pipes for the supply ofthe boiling, washing and dyeing media to the said Chamber, as and forthe purpose set forth.

3. In an apparatus for boiling, washing and dyeing vegetables, fruit andthe like, the combination with a plurality of transport vessels havingsuspending or Carrying means, a perforated bottom and perforations intheir upper part of a trough, a plate forming the bottom of the trough,transverse partitions in the trough for dividing it into a plurality ofcompartments, an opening .in the plate in each compartment, a sealingring surrounding each opening for supporting the rim at the bottom ofeach vessel, a drain pipe below the plate, an outflow in eaehcompartment communicating with the drain pipe and pipes for the supplyof the. boiling, washing and dyeing media disposed below the saidopenings, as and for the purpose set forth 4. In an apparatus forboiling, washing and dyeing vegetables, fruit and the like thecombination with a transport vessel, having suspending or carryingmeans, a perforated bottom and perforations in its upper part, of aplate, an opening in the said plate, a ring WILHELM SCHMIDT.

